Michael Fredo Quotes & Sayings

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure. — Edward Abbey

When you get over 95, every day is your day. — Bob Hope

From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable. — Jonathan L. Ferrara

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later. — Walter Salles

Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [ ... ] they wish they had spent more time with the people and activities they truly loved and less time worrying about aspects of life that, upon deeper examination, really don't matter at all that much. Imagining yourself at your own funeral allows you to look back at your life while you still have the chance to make some important changes. — Richard Carlson

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things, which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Many tyrants have sat on a throne, and those whom no man would think on, have worn crowns. — Jeff Wheeler

For the world as a whole, the CIA has now become the bogey that Communism has been for America. Wherever there is trouble, violence, suffering, tragedy, the rest of us are now quick to suspect the CIA had a hand in it. Our phobia about the CIA is, no doubt, as fantastically excessive as America's phobia about world Communism; but in this case, too, there is just enough convincing guidance to make the phobia genuine. In fact, the roles of America and Russia have been reversed in the world's eyes. Today America has become the world's nightmare. When an uncontrolled and perhaps uncontrollable team can flaunt the historic and traditional codes of civilization by disregarding the honor and sovereignty of other countries large and small, by intervening in the internal affairs of other countries for reasons real and contrived, the rest of the world does fear for its own welfare and for the future of this country. — L. Fletcher Prouty

She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-war Israel. Even so, his actions were borne out of an entirely different instinct, altogether: to fool her and anyone within a dart's range ... to protect himself. — V.S. Carnes

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people. — Twyla Tharp

Do some good in the world for no other reason than wanting to be part of the solution. — Cal Newport

Apparently, there was even a meme created already. The incredibly photogenic glowing-alien meme. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health. — Laurence Miller

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin — Nas

When the world stops, time stops. — Frederick Lenz